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Mallorca, [a] or Majorca, [b] [2] [3] is the largest of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Balearic Islands have been an autonomous region of Spain since 1983. [4]
The average annual temperature in the mainland varies from less than 2.5 °C (36.5 °F) in the north of the Pyrenees, close to the border with France, to more than 20 °C (68 °F). on small regions of Mediterranean coast on Almeria, Granada and Malaga provinces, reaching as high as 20.6 °C (69.1 °F) in Rincón de la Victoria.
The NWS office in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in conjunction with Oral Roberts University's mathematics department, published an approximation formula to the WBGT that takes into account cloud cover and wind speed; in limited experimentation (four samples), the office claimed the estimate was regularly accurate to within 0.5 °F (0.28 °C), even with a ...
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Over the next week, a hot, strong sirocco wind contributed to the spread of extensive forest-fires. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Five percent of Portugal's countryside and 10% of the forests (215,000 hectares [ 7 ] or an estimated 2,150 km 2 (830 sq mi)), were destroyed, and 18 people died in the flames.
The municipalities are grouped into 9 comarques ("comarcas" in Castillian Spanish) - six on the island of Mallorca (Palma de Mallorca, Serra de Tramuntana, Raiguer, Pla de Mallorca, Migjorn and Llevant), while the other islands each form one comarque. In the table below, Serra de Tramuntana and Pla de Mallorca are abbreviated to "Serra" and ...
Metric Today is the bi-monthly newsletter of the US Metric Association. [1] It features the latest developments in US metrication efforts. It has been published continuously since 1966, [ 2 ] and is distributed to each member of the US Metric Association as a benefit of membership.
Palma (Catalan:, also; [4] Spanish:), also known as Palma de Mallorca (officially between 1983 and 1988, 2006–2008, and 2012–2016), [5] is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. [6]